A massive airship sailed overhead.
Xu Cheng studied a map.
The Sun Moon Military Headquarters had now stationed troops in the southern Far North and northern Star Luo territory, forming a pincer around the entire Original Continent at the center.
The Sun Moon Empire's basic deployment was complete.
Next came boiling the frog in warm water.
Although he did not know why they had found nothing linking the Clear Sky Sect to the Divine Realm, his familiarity with the original story meant he knew who stood behind the sect. Truly destroying it might alert a certain God King.
There was also Ah Yin at Shrek Academy.
These were all problems he could not resolve for now. Trying to steamroll through them would only leave both sides wounded.
He would still have to wait for the All-Continent Soul Master Tournament three years later.
Xu Cheng looked down at the snow-covered world below, where houses and towns occasionally flashed past.
If his first victory over Shrek Academy in the round of sixteen had marked the beginning of its crumbling supremacy, then the next time... would lay the foundation for burying Shrek in history's grave.
"Speaking of which..."
Xu Cheng glanced at the girl beside him.
Xue Ling'er still wore an indifferent expression, but a trace of wistfulness had clearly entered her eyes.
"Snow Empress, have you recovered?"
"No..."
Her reply was cool.
Xu Cheng's mouth twitched. "I don't believe you."
"Although I can draw upon my origin power, I truly haven't recovered yet." Xue Ling'er blinked her beautiful pale-blue eyes and looked at him earnestly.
"So your... consciousness has already recovered?"
Xu Cheng swallowed.
The foremost of the Far North's Three Great Heavenly Kings.
An existence with over seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, and he had failed to notice all this